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Little critical attention has been paid to Byron’s Marino Faliero, in particular, his evident concern with the feature and boundary of the protagonist’s unswerving willpower to pursue political intrigue against the ingrained corruption of Venetian oligarchy. This paper contends that a number of textual instances clearly exhibit the recurring motif such as the Doge’s assertive resolution for the rebellion which brings about its ironic, tragic consequences to both the protagonist and his conspirators. The main purpose of this article is to investigate how the poet depicts the irresolvable, conflicting relationship between Marino Faliero’s freedom of will and its externalization in the social organization regulated by Venetian aristocracy. The paper focuses on the procedure of the protagonist’s exercising of his willpower, which is intertwined with his own sense of fate and simultaneously the adverse, outer forces inherent within the arbitrary, corrupted power of the Council. Byron gradually unfolds the Doge’s vigorous pursuit of the freedom and glory of Venice, which features his rebellious attitude toward Venetian oligarchy. In portraying this, the author, at the same time, accentuates the questions of dilemma and limitation of man’s free choice, which struggles with the general will of the political organization. In addition, he elaborates other dramatic characters like Angiolina, Bertram and his defiant comrades, who play crucial role in propounding the complex, subtle aspects of the Doge’s willpower and activities.